İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu (Photo by OZAN KOSE / AFP)

İmamoğlu ordered to pay damages to Erdoğan over remarks on assets seizure

A Turkish court has ordered Ekrem İmamoğlu, İstanbul’s jailed mayor and the main opposition’s presidential candidate, to pay 150,000 Turkish lira ($3,500) in non-pecuniary...

İstanbul Police Chief calls on neighborhood guards to not hesitate to use weapons

İstanbul Police Chief Mustafa Çalışkan has called on the neighborhood guards to not hesitate to use their weapons when necessary, during a speech on...

AKP lawmaker claims domestic violence cases in Turkey exaggerated by media

Hülya Atçı Nergis, a lawmaker from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has said the media is exaggerating femicides and other incidents of...

Carlos Latuff: Erdoğan drags Turkey into a dictatorship in broad daylight

"(Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip) Erdoğan has been dragging Turkey into a dictatorship in broad daylight, before the eyes of the world," said the...

Hunger striking educator Özakça’s mother detained by Turkish police in Ankara

The mother of Semih Özakça, a primary school teacher who went on a hunger strike after he was fired by government decree under the...

President Erdoğan: Turkey’s destiny tied to AKP’s

Turkey's autocratic President and Chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Turkey’s destiny has become tied to...

Dismissed police officer reinstated to job 3 years after death

A former police officer who was fired in a wide-ranging purge in the aftermath of a coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016 and...

Bipartisan Policy Center: Corruption becomes policy instrument in Erdoğan’s Turkey

Corruption has become an instrument of policy and rule in the hands of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP)...

Popular döner restaurant chain in Turkey investigated over Gülen links, 353 detained

Turkish police have detained 353 people as part of an investigation into a well-known döner restaurant chain in Turkey for alleged links to the...

CoE submits Kavala case to ECtHR for review, launching infringement procedure against Turkey

The Committee of Ministers, the executive organ of the Council of Europe (CoE), on Thursday decided to take action against Turkey for failing to...
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